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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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